Narrator Quotes
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Narrator Quotes & Sayings
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
— Andrew Vachss
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
— Joel Edgerton
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
— Willie Stargell
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
— Charlotte Bronte
Hats off to Tavia Gilbert who made Bones alive for me. What a great writer and narrator team. You make listening fun!"
— Tavia Gilbert
I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.
— Virginia Woolf
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
— Maria Semple
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
— Anthony Bourdain
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
— Pat Conroy
How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.
— Daniel Handler
The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
— Pearl S. Buck
But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Who are you, Lucy Snowe?
— Charlotte Bronte
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
— Romesh Gunesekera
***A Last note from your narrator***I am haunted by humans. — Markus Zusak
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
— Molly Crabapple
I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
— Steven Wright
With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.
— Stuart Rojstaczer
A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering -
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
And this is where I, the narrator, tell you that it's my story and I'll do as I please. You can close the book at any time, you know.
— K.L. Montgomery
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.
— Iain M. Banks
I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator
— Chris Cleave
The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn't want it in his book.
— Jose Saramago
That's one problem about relating events in first person. The reader knows the narrator didn't get killed.
— Robert McCammon
I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.
— Arthur Bradford
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
— Charles Palliser
Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.
— Dexter Palmer
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
— William Kennedy
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ...
— Catherynne M Valente
A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.
— J.D. Salinger
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
— Laurie Graham
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
— James Lee Burke
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
— Arthur Herzog
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
— John McTiernan
she constantly shifts back and forth between her "literate" narrator's voice and a highly idiomatic black voice
— Zora Neale Hurston
Their three approaches fail but somehow the story itself succeeds, despite its narrator's and even author's failures!
— Dan Simmons
What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past.
— Linda Hutcheon
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
— Laurie Halse Anderson